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THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

From ‘Happit Season’ and ‘Carol’ to Netflix’s ‘Sgle All the Way’ and Lifetime’s ‘Unr the Christmas Tree,’ the are the bt gay and lbian Christmas movi. Holiday-romance movi aren’t jt for the straights, and the LGBTQ films prove . * gay christmas *

This holiday season has gifted dienc wh four—y, four—gay Christmas roms: Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe, Hulu’s Happit Season, Lifetime’s The Christmas Set-Up (December 12), and Paramount’s Dashg December (December 13). “I thk when they said make the Yuleti gay, they meant , ” said Jonathan Bent, one half of the gay uple at the heart of Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe.

'” The works—Hallmark, Lifetime, Paramount—fally donned their gay apparel, jtifyg s of passn for this historilly heteronormative holiday. “It’s so classic, so typil that the queer muni have often loved a lot of the stutns that have not necsarily loved back, ” said Ben Lewis, the other half of The Christmas Setup’s gay power uple, sharg a sentiment echoed by pretty much everyone else terviewed. And so I thk for gay men, I thk even for Christmas enthiasts, I thk we’re chasg after that childhood fort and safety that maybe we missed at that time.

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Victor Garber—a hero to a generatn of gay people thanks to his work on Broadway, Tanic, Alias, Legends of Tomorrow, and jt beg Victor Garber—played straight Happit Season as closeted Harper Caldwell’s uptight polician father. I remember meetg a lot of gay kids when I was growg up who weren’t so happy about Christmas and, not unlike Happit Season, would have to go home and pretend [to be straight].

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Benjam Bradley lov Christmas Connecticut for gay in Barbara Stanwyck, and Na Wt returns to Whe Christmas every year thanks to the looks and stunts of Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney.

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“I thk [Happit Season is] groundbreakg bee ’s an hont-to-god holiday-themed rom that is for queer people, by queer people, ” said Jkx Monsoon of Happit Season, Hulu’s star-studd, major stud gay holiday rom starrg Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. That may be why he didn’t ially nsir makg Dashg December a gay romance—and then leapt at the chance to make this particular dream e te (a dream starrg out actors starrg Peter Porte and Juan Pablo Di Pace). ” This simple tweak opened up the entire story for Helgren, turng what was jt a uple sentenc of plot to a full-fledged screenplay that speaks to not only the holiday season, but to the specific experience of beg gay a small, ral muny.

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The scene that mattered the most to Bent, and every sgle queer person watchg The Christmas Hoe at home, was Brandon and Jake’s kiss—y, a gay kiss on Hallmark. "Merrie cherryAn extravaganza of the supernatural, all thgs sweet and larger-than-life stum, many LGBTQ Amerins like Roberts hail Halloween as "gay Christmas.

" But the ntemporary excement around the supernatural holiday has a long history wh the LGBTQ morn phrase "gay Christmas" actually stems om an earlier queer nickname for the holiday, "bch Christmas, " acrdg to Marc Ste, a profsor of history at San Francis State Universy, and thor of "Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov.

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"Followg the wave of LGBTQ activism and visibily sparked by the 1969 Stonewall rts, more formal versns of queer Halloween celebratns began poppg up "gayborhoods" around the untry. " As a gay man, he scribed Halloween as one of the only tim a year growg up when he was not "ostracized or punished or cricized for havg the flamboyant, creative tennci. Early the ntemporary queer holiday non, 2005’s The Fay Stone, which stars gay in Sarah Jsi Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spendg the holidays at her boyiend’s fay home, beme a queer h for s B-plot gay uple wh ambns to adopt a baby.

That is, gay and lbian Christmas movi actually center queer people now — same-sex holiday revelers csh and fall love, break up, rega romance, and jt live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever. Hallmark’s first-ever gay Christmas romance is a sparkly, trope-y film about the virtu of settlg down and startg a fay a glzy world where homophobia don’t exist.

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Nearby, handsome sgle-gay-father-aspiree Jason (Gee Krissa) studi an adoptn pamphlet his ftively rated mansn while his dotg mom nsol him via phone om her home across the street. Netflix’s first te gay Christmas movie (2019’s Let It Snow has a cute queer-teen subplot) follows plant daddy Peter (Michael Urie) as he heads home to New Hampshire wh his bt iend and pretend boyiend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to avoid his mom’s (Kathy Najimy) naggg about his perpetual sgle stat.

The tradn ntu 2021, wh films starrg RuPl, Michael Urie, Jonathan Ben and more — pl appearanc by gay favor like Jennifer your holiday season bge-watchg ssns acrdgly wh the upg movi and specials. 2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg. But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd.

3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats. “The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia. Baneatta’s gay son, Kenny (Anthony Chatmon II), brgs his boyiend, Logan (Derek Chadwick), home for the holidays but is given an icy receptn.

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18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer.

In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe. 19, LifetimeLast year, Lifetime buted s first gaycentric holiday flick, "The Christmas Setup, " and this season, 's brgg a lbian romance to the small this holiday tale om "The Christmas Setup" screenwrer Michael J.

Drama and secrets get exposed this brand new, queer-clive fay saga that featur a gay uple played by Broadway actor/photographer Anthony Chatmon II and out mol Derek Chadwick!

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Nonbary actor Hugh Sheridan is takg on their first gay role, playg the happily married David alongsi hubby (played by Nicholas Brown) the Asie Christmas rom- Christmas on the Farm! Directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer and starrg a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy screen legends Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, Sgle All the Way is Netflix's highly-anticipated, first gay holiday film and tells the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official (and relatable AF) scriptn.

Emmy-wng TV in and Drag Race legend RuPl is gettg on all of the gay cheer this year by releasg her very own special holiday special for VH1, aptly entled The Bch Who Stole Christmas!

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Tellg the story of the Diaz fay, the seri featur a gay uple, as well as one of the first transgenr love stori to ever be featured a holiday rom-!

Part of the Hallmark Channel's imprsive and packed slate of 41 brand-new Christmas movi beg released this holiday season, the upg sequel to last year's gay-clive The Christmas Hoe, tentatively entled Deck Those Halls, is rng the origal st for another round of queer holiday cheer, cludg Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr, the two actors who played the loveable hband-hband duo the first movie. Dec 11 (starrg Mean Girls' Jonathan Bent and Gee Krissa, 's the work's first-ever holiday rom- wh a same-sex uple ont and center), now is a great time to round up the all-time bt gay/LGBTQIA+ Christmas movi ever this list, all feature films that heavily feature Christmas and LGBTQIA+ characters are fair game.

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Related: See Hallmark's Christmas Movie Lp for This YearPhilemon Chambers and Michael Urie the Christmas movie "Sgle All the Way" on NetflixNetflixSgle All the Way (2021)Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Hoc Poc' Kathy Najimy and LGBTQ in Jennifer Coolidge (h off her bt performance ever, The Whe Lot) star Netflix's exclive high-profile rom- about gay bt iends who disver feelgs over the holiday season, as one pos as the other's boyiend. Related: The Bt Christmas Episos of Your Favore TV ShowsThe Christmas Setup (2020)Ben Lewis, Blake Lee and gay in Fran Drcher star the Lifetime origal movie The Christmas Setup, about a New York attorney who llis wh his high school csh on a holiday vis back home.

Released 2009, the film follows Gunn, a llege stunt who’s openly gay at school and is headg home – and back to the closet – for Christmas wh his fay. The two gay characters, Brandon and Jake, are fully accepted by their relativ and iends and their sexualy isn’t the ma foc of the storyle, stead foc on their efforts to adopt a child. Why You Can’t Miss It: This movie puts a gay twist on the classic fake-relatnship-for-the-holidays plot, adds a love triangle angle, and brgs Kathy Najimy and Jennifer Coolidge together?

In recent years, however, the yuleti has never been gayer thanks to historic rom-s such as Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup, Hallmark’s The Christmas Hoe and Hulu’s Happit Season, which notably beme the first gay Christmas film released by a major stud. Hallmark’s first film to promently feature a gay uple, The Christmas Hoe, is back for a sequel wh Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr reprisg their rol as married uple Brandon and Jake.

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My parents are played by Barry Bostwick and Kathy Najimy — a batn that scientists agree n only produce sons who are gay and love Christmas.

TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas. In a si plot, Everett’s gay af brother reveals that he and his partner are planng to “The Fay Stone” don’t revent the holiday movie, do shake up nventns about expectatns when to romance. 'Make the Yuleti Gay' (2009)College stunt Gunn (Keh Jordan) is totally out at school, but he hasn’t gotten around to tellg his Midwtern fay that he’s gay and that his “roommate, ” Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero of "Degrassi"), is actually his boyiend.

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"Williams plays Ebony Scrooge, a succsful but nasty R&B sger who mends her ways wh the help of three spectral visors, cludg gay fave Kathy Griff as the Ghost of Christmas Past. 'Some of My Bt Friends Are…' (1971)You might have some trouble fdg this low-budget holiday gem om wrer-director Mervyn Nelson, but ’ll be worth the effort: A group of regulars gather at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, on Christmas Eve Rue McClanahan, Fannie Flagg, trans pneer Candy Darlg and Gary Sanrs of “WKRP Ccnati, ” “Some of My Bt Friends Are…” is an astonishgly ndid time psule of the Stonewall era that remds that gays have been fg chosen fai for generatns.

No, not Rudolph — I’m referrg to Hermey, the misf elf who wants to qu Santa’s workshop to be a gay subtext this stop-motn classic om Rank/Bass is pretty hard to miss — even before bearish lumberjack Yon Corneli tak Rudolph and Hermey to the Island of Misf Toys. Who needs Bg Crosby and Rosemary Clooney when you’ve got a morn tearjerker touchg on gay relatnships, HIV/AIDS, substance abe, gentrifitn and more — all the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?

That’s the premise of this fay romp, which featur them of g together, fah and acceptance, along wh what looks to be an adorable gay proposal.

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